======LED Command Line Approach======

The first project for Data Communications by Harry Longwell during the FAll 2013.

=====Objectives=====

The purpose of this project was to create make a LED turn on and off using a command line approach.

=====Procedure=====

The first step of the project is to connect an LED to the Raspberry Pi's pins, for this project I used pin GPIO 11. This set up is shown in the photo found below.

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The following code will get us to the point were our LED can be turned on, and then off.
<code>
sudo su
echo 11 > /sys/class/gpio/export 
echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio11/direction
</code>

To turn on the LED we run the following command
<code>
echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio11/value
</code>
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And then to turn off the LED we run the command,
<code>
echo 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio11/value
</code>
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